> And if you sold a weapon to a murderer, or even if you failed to reasonably secure your weapon and it was stolen
There's no indication either of these things happened, either.
As the article says:
"There is no evidence suggesting that any of those companies are running afoul of US sanctions laws and knowingly exporting their technology to be used in the drones. Even with many companies promising increased monitoring, controlling where these highly ubiquitous parts end up in the global market is often very difficult for manufacturers, experts told CNN."
The part pictured is a TMS320F28335PGFA. You can get 'em in trays of 240 for $10/chip on Alibaba and any number of other places that a) aren't TI and b) don't care about US law.
You're still missing the point like you can't hit the side of a barn. It has nothing whatsoever to do with American companies doing anything wrong or punishing them. America is punished. Trying to escape responsibility is utterly impossible. It already happened. American parts in wreckage of Russian drone strikes is undeniable. It's bad. Endlessly trying to make excuses is childish, narcissistic and callous.
> It has nothing whatsoever to do with American companies doing anything wrong or punishing them.
OK, but you said this:
> it makes those companies accessories to this illegal Russian war
Is being an accessory to the Russian aggression not wrong?
> American parts in wreckage of Russian drone strikes is undeniable.
I mean, sure, but the Russians are using Ukranian-made arms and aircraft, too; that doesn't make the Ukranians complicit in the Russian aggression. Ukraine used to be a major arms supplier to the entire Soviet and post-Soviet sphere of influence.
Your standard for "responsibility" is bizarre. The balance of US involvement in Ukraine is extremely heavily on the side of good, and it'd stay that way even if TI had knowingly had anything to do with these drones.
We actually don't know that, yet.
> And if you sold a weapon to a murderer, or even if you failed to reasonably secure your weapon and it was stolen
There's no indication either of these things happened, either.
As the article says:
"There is no evidence suggesting that any of those companies are running afoul of US sanctions laws and knowingly exporting their technology to be used in the drones. Even with many companies promising increased monitoring, controlling where these highly ubiquitous parts end up in the global market is often very difficult for manufacturers, experts told CNN."
The part pictured is a TMS320F28335PGFA. You can get 'em in trays of 240 for $10/chip on Alibaba and any number of other places that a) aren't TI and b) don't care about US law.